Behind the Beard | April 20, 2022

Something I'm Reading: 

Currently reading this book, which I picked up in a gift shop in Edinburgh, Scotland. And it’s awesome.

Something I Teach

“Be Kind to Your Tomorrow.”

We often think of our future self as someone entirely different than ourselves.  Ok, that sounds weird so let me explain: we tell ourselves we’ll work out on Monday instead of today, because we think our “Monday self” will be motivated to do so. We say yes to time commitments that are months away, but if that same request was about the same event tomorrow, we’d know that we don’t actually want to do it and we’d decline. But we’ll stick our future self with it.  We eat like crap now even though it’s going to shave off years of our life down the road or at least make the last few decades much less enjoyable.

In other words, we often treat our future self like crap… worse than we’d treat our mom, our spouse, or our friends.  But this same concept can be turned around for good. By building that business now, investing in that deal now, waking up early now, going to the gym now, improving that relationship now…we are being kind to our future self. And your future self will be kind to you in turn. 

So, remember this next time you’re tempted to put something off into the future. Is your future self going to thank you or loathe you?

Something I Photographed:

Each week I share a photo I snapped in the previous week. Sometimes serious. Sometimes random and funny. Maybe a selfie once in a while. Just because.

Found in the middle of a random field in Scotland….  #OutlanderStyle

Something I'm Excited About:

ODC has some big things in the works which MAY involve a multifamily portfolio with assets spread across some of the hottest MSAs in the country…but I’ve already said too much 😉 If you want more info before we announce it to the general public, sign up for early access at odcfund.com/email

Something I Can Answer:

Every week, I answer a question texted in by you! Reply to this text with your question to be featured in a future Behind the Beard.

Question: “How can someone start building a personal brand? What has worked well for you and what hasn’t?”

I answered this week’s question with a voice recording. Take a listen below:

Also - do you like the voice memos or not? Text me and let me know!

Your Friend,

P.S. Have a question you want answered by me? Reply to this text with your question - I pick one to answer each week in Behind the Beard and do my best to reply to others directly via text.